Search Results for Medical Devices

A low-cost telemedicine tool featuring a virtual reality (VR) interface has been designed and developed to assist with the evaluation and diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease, thereby enabling greater access to care and earlier diagnosis for patients with neurological disorders; even for those in remote areas, or with limited transportation options.

This invention is a tubular electrospun scaffold of natural protein gelatin and synthetic polyglycolic acid (PGA) / poly-lactic-co-glycolic (PLGA) polymers in a bioreactor system connected to a flow circuit and seeded with cultured fibroblasts and endothelial cells.

Novel ligands designed to activate mu opioid receptors and provide analgesic effects without opioid-related side effects, providing specific insight into the cellular impact of opioid receptor-based activation as related to pain medications. These ligands could be used as a tool to negate drug tolerance and dependence as well as other adverse side effects.

This invention utilizes a novel approach to achieve unprecedented accuracy for MEG/EEG medical imaging. Precisely isolating locations in the brain can play an important role in treatment procedures. Based on a variation of minimum mean-square error (MMSE) estimation, this approach is a solution to a previously unsolved problem in brain imaging. The approach has been applied to simulated brain MEG auditory response data and has enabled the capability of resolving, both temporally and spatially, the separate components of the primary and secondary auditory responses. This invention is able to precisely locate the primary and secondary responses. Further, this approach can be used in any application involving MEG/EEG imaging.

Photo-mediated Ultrasound Therapy (PUT) is a non-pharmacological, highly targeted, non-invasive treatment which selectively disrupts the microvasculature (arteries or veins independently) without catheterization/injection or damage to the surrounding tissue.

This device is an improvement on pre-existing technology. It is a nasoenteric feeding tube that is inexpensive, disposable, and designed to give the user more maneuverability and thus a better chance of successfully placing it in the small intestine.

This invention consists of a new hyphenated atomic force microscopy (AFM) technique with whispering gallery mode sensing (WGM), which provides the ability to measure the topography and refractive index of a material simultaneously.